• CIBC Completes Several Financings

    CIBC Bank USA announced a handful of senior care financings across multiple states. First, the company closed a $17.5 million cash-out refinancing for a regional operator’s portfolio of three skilled nursing facilities with 235 total beds in northeast and southeast Massachusetts, and southern New Hampshire. The facilities have an effective age of... Read More »
  • Blueprint Adding HUD Lending Platform

    Fresh off another record-setting year for investment sales activity, Blueprint announced a major expansion of its capital markets services to now include FHA/HUD lending and servicing capabilities. The firm is acquiring the existing FHA/HUD lending platform of MidCap Financial Services, and hiring Tony Marino, formerly of Cambridge Realty Capital... Read More »
  • More New Capital Enters Seniors Housing

    A fully-integrated real estate firm that is well known in the student housing world announced its foray into the seniors housing industry. Landmark Properties focuses on the development, construction, acquisition, investment management, and operation of high-quality residential communities, but the company’s intent is to invest in ground-up... Read More »
  • Berkadia’s Recent Financing Activity

    In the past 30 days, Berkadia’s Jay Healy and Andrew Lanzaro have closed $111.5 million across four financings for four separate sponsors, encompassing eleven properties in six states. The activity included three bridge financings totaling $69.6 million from Berkadia’s proprietary balance sheet and a $41.9 million HUD refinance. The first... Read More »
  • Inspirit Senior Living Appoints New President

    Torey Riso is heading back to the operating world, joining Inspirit Senior Living as President as of March 16. He joins Dave McHarg, who is the CEO of Inspirit and Founding Partner of the company. Since its founding in 2015, Inspirit has grown to 37 properties under management, with Inspirit holding an equity interest in around half of those. ... Read More »
Adding Value In Arkansas

Adding Value In Arkansas

A couple of value-add skilled nursing facilities sold in Arkansas with the help of Ben Firestone, Michael Segal and Brooks Blackmon of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors. Previously owned by a publicly-traded REIT, the facilities are located on opposite sides of the state and had almost no geographic synergies. Totaling 234 beds, they reported in-place cash flow but were not stabilized during the sales process. So, positioning them as a value-add opportunity (if some capital improvements are made), Blueprint found a Louisiana-based healthcare real estate investor to purchase the facilities, which are their first-ever SNFs. To help ease their entry into the market, the buyer kept the... Read More »
Getting Out of Ohio

Getting Out of Ohio

A publicly-traded REIT and national skilled nursing operator tenant divested a geographical outlier in the state of Ohio with the sale of their 30-unit assisted living community for an undisclosed price. Located in the town of Mansfield (about halfway between Cleveland and Columbus), the community was the tenant’s only assisted living operation in the state, hence the exit. It opened in the 1980s and has consistently been well occupied with stable cash flow, thanks to their enrollment in Ohio’s Assisted Living Waiver Program. Alternative Living Solutions, a local provider, saw the opportunity to expand the community and acquired it with the help of its regional bank lending partner. Ben... Read More »
Blueprint Sells In Ohio and Florida

Blueprint Sells In Ohio and Florida

Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has been anything but a wallflower this year in seniors housing and care deal making and continued their 2018 haul with two more transactions announced at the start of NIC. First, in Dayton, Ohio, Connor Doherty and Michael Segal sold an 87-bed skilled nursing facility that came with a lot of upside. Situated in a desirable, urban infill location adjacent to a local medical center, the facility maintained a five-star rating from CMS. Pretty good. But there were restrictive admissions criteria and a vacant floor that meant census was below market. Taking on the challenge (for an undisclosed price) will be a newly-formed, opportunistic... Read More »
Is the SNF Market Bottoming Out?

Is the SNF Market Bottoming Out?

On September 27, our Editor Steve Monroe and a panel of experts that included Ryan Chase of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors, Eli Kutner of Harborview Capital Partners and Stefan Oh of American Healthcare Investors, debated an important question: is the skilled nursing market approaching a bottom? And if it is, how do we value those facilities considering Medicare Advantage plans are shortening lengths of stay, Medicaid reimbursement dollars are getting squeezed and SNF censuses across the country are steadily declining? After hitting a peak of nearly $100,000 per bed in 2016, SNF values have dropped off about 20%. But demand is still high, and new buyers (big buyers) are hitting... Read More »
KeyBank Plays Key Role In Record Oregon Acquisition

KeyBank Plays Key Role In Record Oregon Acquisition

A few weeks ago, we reported the closing of the highest-priced single-asset seniors housing sale in the state of Oregon. Now, we’ve learned that KeyBank Real Estate Capital financed it with a $63.2 million Freddie Mac loan, which Charlie Shoop arranged with a fixed rate, 10-year term, four years of interest only and a 30-year amortization period. Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors handled the sale on behalf of the original developer/owner, eventually securing a $92 million, or $321,700 per unit, purchase price from the buyer, Strategic Student & Senior Housing Trust. That represented a 6.4% cap rate based on estimated trailing EBITDAR. Integral Senior Living, the property’s... Read More »